Leonard Bernstein’s Radicalism
Bernstein used his status as a public figure both to popularize classical music and to support civil rights, the antiwar movement, and other political causes.

Bernstein used his status as a public figure both to popularize classical music and to support civil rights, the antiwar movement, and other political causes.
A discussion on the life and times of Whittaker Chambers, the Communist spy who became a conservative hero.
If there’s a lesson to be derived from Gary Dorrien’s account of American socialism, it’s that the movement’s open participation in and with the broad democratic left benefits the socialist cause.
A new documentary finally gives Pauli Murray, the trailblazing feminist and civil rights lawyer who coined the term “Jane Crow,” their due.